Dancer in the Passion of Dawn
Blushing screams of fire on your cheeks
Rapier wisps of pointed stems at your feet
Your legs are icicles melting in poise
As you strain your chest in bursting joys
Burning, flickering flames alight
Upon my dreams most distant flight
And scorch my seething soul to eros
With blazing ropes my heart you'll roast
A panther taut inside you curls
Learning how to wind and whirl
Slice my eye by quickening stare
Passion claws and leaps and flares
You dance with guile in poison spun
Upon the serpent's lethal tongue
Dipped toes in venom's sensual bile
Leaping from the fangs of vicious smile
I'm dragged from the fathomless gorge of night
By your dazzling dance in brilliant light
Enraptured by your slender cunning arms
I sigh in ecstasy's haunting charm
Your dawn unveils love's sharp nuance
Spinning love in painful chance
My knowing pen does shrivel in a blaze
Lost in the fire of your wrathful maze.
Richard Field
September 2003
